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Franz Schoenberner, who now lives in New York City and is working on another book, was reared in the rarest air of German intellectualism. Son of a Berlin pas tor, he was subject to spasms of brattish rage, until his adoring mother taught him how much safer it was to hurl abstract arguments instead of "all kinds of physical objects." By the time he was 13, sharp-witted Franz had logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that...
...entire defense agency setup. Result: the Supply, Priorities & Allocations Board. Later, Commuter Rosenman helped organize the War Manpower Commission. Next, the Governments' snarled public-relations agencies needed attention. So Rosenman, between running errands and writing speeches for the President, and advising him on the selection of candidates tor Government jobs, planned the Office of War Information...
Many travelers had talked about it. Last week a Jacksonville barge-line opera tor decided it could be done. Young, energetic Harold Gray Williams, 37, had the blueprints drawn and the cash in hand ($2,000,000) needed to build a super de luxe ferry for the 90 nautical-mile trip from Key West to Havana. It will carry 300 autos and 900 passengers. When the first ferry goes into service, probably some time next summer, U.S. autoists can cross the Straits of Florida in six hours, and at a tentative cost of only...
...wait, as guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...
Into that Platz, then into others, and finally into the vast wreckage of Unter den Linden came tanks and guns. Katusha rockets screeched over the Brandenburger Tor. Then, against a background of flames, the Red banner of victory was unfurled over the gutted Reichstag building. But, even after the ten-day battle was won, Germans died hard...